Hurricane Irene

[Sangye]

Whew... 6 pm and my internet is finally back on.

The storm began hitting us at around 11 last night but did its worst a few hours later. We didn't get anything like people near the coasts got. Still, I was up all night. I had a badly leaking door and window--chronic problem that ran amok. Also the electricity literally blinked on and off for hours, and every time it blinked off it caused the house alarm system to beep until I got up to press Stop. Then we lost power for the last few hours of the night. Because of all the wet towels and wet wall, it reeked in here. No HEPA air purifier meant bad air. I was a wreck by dawn. Glad it's over and I hope everyone else managed okay.

[Psyborg]

Glad things came out ok for you. Make sure you get the wet up before any mold can start!

[Sangye]

It's been going on several years. The leak is in the walls and it's all rotted in there. My landlady ignored it when it could've been repaired 3 yrs ago. Now they'll have to take down the entire wall in this one-room basement, which is incompatible with living in here or leaving my possessions while I stay somewhere else.

Instead of thanking me for staying up all night protecting her property, my landlady responded to my update this morning with "I'm going to give you 2 weeks notice so I can get it repaired." Right. Find a place and move, all within 2 weeks. I don't think so.

[elephant]

Wow, Sangye! That is aweful!

[Sangye]

Yeah, she's very strange. We're on good terms but she has little empathy or gratitude. My lease includes weeding of the backyard I use. She hires a gardener every few months only after the weeds are chest-high and my dogs are terrified to go potty in it. Since it's a tiny yard no one wants to bother with it, so she has major hassles every time trying to get a gardener to come. Last week I offered to keep it weeded myself if she would buy an inexpensive ($30) weed whacker. (My plan was to do it when the weeds were very low--not a big job) Her response? "You can buy a weed whacker if you want." No thanks. I'm not interested in paying rent for a service and then having to buy the equipment to do that service myself.

[pberggren1]

That sucks Sangye. This reminds me of a friend that was wrongly evicted a few years ago. He is on disability and can't work. He had a small one room basebent bachelore suite. He was paying, I think somewhere around 250 a month, and he did some extra work around the building like shovelling walks in winter and collecting rent, etc. Then the building was sold and the tennants were not informed. My frined did not even know the building was sold. It is a large 3 story building with 14 suites. The provincial governemnt bought it. They told the tennants they would all have to leave for a month to do repairs to the building. My friend was suspicious so he contacted the property management people and said what is going on here. There is no way all of us can find a place to move in such a short time. The building is not perfetct by any means but it did not need much repairing to make it better. My friend asked what repairs and they just avoided him. So he found another place but by the time he found a place real estate prices had gone sky high and were unrealistically inflated. He found another place but now has to pay over 700 a month. Anyway, the government bought the building and turned it into a halfway house for people with disabilities and drug problems, etc. This seems so unfair to me that all those people were lied to and had to find other places to live at over twice the price they were paying.

[drz]

It's been going on several years. The leak is in the walls and it's all rotted in there. My landlady ignored it when it could've been repaired 3 yrs ago. Now they'll have to take down the entire wall in this one-room basement, which is incompatible with living in here or leaving my possessions while I stay somewhere else.

Instead of thanking me for staying up all night protecting her property, my landlady responded to my update this morning with "I'm going to give you 2 weeks notice so I can get it repaired." Right. Find a place and move, all within 2 weeks. I don't think so.

If it has mold problems you might well want to leave for health reasons.
Several people I know got seriously ill from mold problems in their houses. A couple of houses were condemned and tore down for that reason.

Hope you find a better housing arrangement that gives you less stress.

[pberggren1]

There is someone on the forum here that had mould in her house and had to leave for a while. A very bad situation. And she also had fiberglass all over the place as well. She did the flash light test at night and everything was a glow. You could see the fiberglass in the air. So she was breathing that in as well. I think the main mould she had was fusarium. She has a microscope and looks at the varioius moulds and also looks at stuff she coughs up and what comes out of her nose. Now the ENT thinks she doesn't even have Wegs but has AFS. Crazy!

[Sangye]

Yeah, I definitely know living in this is a ticking time bomb. The HEPA does an amazing job-- main reason why I haven't gotten sick. I've been trying to get out of here since I moved in nearly 3 years ago. The rent in this area is unbelievably high. Even now I pay close to what I paid for my mortgage on a 3bd/ 2ba, 2-car garage home with giant yard, next to a pine forest.

[DEE]

Sangye ,I hope things get better for you .